Making video games is an arduous vocation. It often means working long days to meet unrealistic deadlines. With people's subjective tastes in the medium, it also means never pleasing everyone. Yet for...
Final Fantasy is one of the longest-running, most beloved gaming franchises out there. Since 1987, it has been pumping out a string of numbered entries and a bevy of spin-offs. Like most large franchi...
Doom didn't just revolutionize the first-person shooter; it changed the video game landscape as a whole. Its fast-paced, demon-slaying gameplay enthralled players back in 1993, and its addictive, comp...
The Final Fantasy series was once the king of the RPG genre. While its recent output is still great, one could convincingly argue that they've made a few missteps. They will inevitably put out a sixte...
The 2000s was a magical decade for games. Developers had spent the latter half of the '90s getting comfortable with 3D and this decade saw the results of their hard work. The graphical jump was one of...
Portable spin-offs are often hit and miss. At their worst, they are cheap cash grabs aimed at exploiting loyal fans of a series. Games like Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified and Mortal Kombat on th...
Game Informer magazine has been around since August of 1991. It started as a bi-monthly publication before going monthly in 1994. In addition to always getting the hot scoop on the newest titles, they...
Fallout has been scratching the Western RPG itch since 1997, starting out as tactical isometric role-playing experiences. After Bethesda took the reigns from Interplay in the mid-2000s starting with F...
2016's Doom rebooted the beloved first-person shooter franchise for modern times. Instead of adapting modern conventions, it updated all the things that made the original so memorable. There's no aimi...
The two Red Dead Redemption games are two of the finest games in the medium's past ten years. They each created a convincing Wild West environment, telling brutal, unfair tales of the outlaw lifestyle...
Not all video games are shooting stars. Some fizzle out upon release and are quickly forgotten. Other failures are remembered for just how spectacularly they crashed and burned. However, just because ...
The Dark Souls series is a unique beast in the modern gaming landscape. It eschews all common conveniences, pushing the player's skills to the very limit of their ability. Instead of being turned off ...
Doom took the gaming world by storm upon its release in 1993. First-person shooters had been around already, but Id Software's seminal title ratcheted the genre's intensity all the way, delivering a h...
In 2009, a small Japanese game called Demon's Souls released to little fanfare. Those who did buy it slowly discovered the intense depth of the mechanics, systems, and lore. Word spread of this enigma...
Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid franchise is not only one of the longest-running video game series of all time, it is also one of the few that kept the same continuity through out. The likes of Super ...
Nintendo had a rocky start to this decade. After the Nintendo Wii's immeasurable success, the company released the Wii U in 2012. The console only moved a fraction of its predecessor's units, ultimate...
There's something special about first-person shooters. Perhaps it is the idea of seeing everything through the character's eyes that makes the player feel more engrossed in the world, or maybe it's th...
Gaming has a long, illustrious history. From forgotten gems to timeless classics, they all helped paved the way for where the medium is today. Not all of them have aged gracefully, however. Unfortunat...
Sony has had an incredibly impressive run in the console space. They came out of the gate swinging with the PlayStation in 1994, then managed to top themselves with the PS2 in 2000. The PS3 managed to...
Video games existed before the 1980s, but it was in that decade that the modern conventions really took shape. Home consoles started dominating the market, iconic franchises were born, and prudish par...
